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Documents in Mycenaean Greek: Three Hundred Selected Tablets from Knossos, Pylos and Mycenae with Commentary and Vocabulary

By John Chadwick , Michael Ventris

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1959
ISBN
1107503418, 9781107503410
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17608393 bytes)
Edition
Reprint
Pages
xxx,452\494
Time added
2017-11-12 15:54:09
Greece;Ancient Civilizations;History

Description

In their 1953 book, Documents in Mycenaean Greek, Michael Ventris (1922-56) and John Chadwick (1920-98) demonstrated that the previously mysterious script Linear B was, in fact, a syllabic form of written Greek, thereby revolutionizing ancient history and linguistics. In this second edition, originally published in 1973, Chadwick examines how the study of the subject has expanded since 1953 and includes some of the material discovered since the initial publication. This book continues to be a valuable part of Classical scholarship and will be of interest to Classicists of every discipline.

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